Saturday, March 25, 2017

WineDrunk SideWalk: Shipwrecked in TrumpLand week NINE weekly wrap-up

I think this might be the first
week that I get to start one of these wrap-ups with some good news…provided you
consider the FBI formally investigating the White House for links into Russian
interference with a United States Presidential election good news….we’ll take
what we can get these days…I guess.

But that’s just what happened on
Monday…. FBI directore, James “Hilary Clinton Killer” Comey, testified before
the House Intelligence Committee that the FBI was INDEED investigating whether
or not members of the DOUCHE campaign colluded with the Russians to help
influence the 2016 election. Comey was
joined by the director of everyone’s favorite data storing agency, the NSA’s
very own Adm. Michael S. Rogers, who dismissed the claim that everyone from your
senile grandmother to your son and/or daughter’s bully already knows…that
President Obama DID NOT wiretap DOUCHE’s phones/microwaves/etc at the Dark
Tower.

Of course the White House
dismissed most of the testimony as “fake news.” It has been a general practice
here to NOT include the quotes of a raving lunatic so if you’d like to read
what DOUCHE had to rant about I would suggest getting a Twitter account or
giving your drunken uncle a call at the local VFW.

….confirmation hearings began for
Judge Neil “Fascism Forever” Gorsuch on Capitol Hill this week in probably one
of the more partisan opening sessions ever with Democrats complaining about the
way the GOP treated Obama and his pick Merrick Garland, and the GOP reminding
the Democrats that cheating, lying, obstruction and an overall inability to
lead a nation can ONLY come from their side of the room. Gorsuch, for his part,
read an opening speech where he basically gave a Tom Joad whitewash to his
life/career…fly fishing anyone? The rest of this week has been pretty much
softball questions from the Trump/Ryan terrorist faction of the government and
the same, spineless Democrats we’ve known and loved for years….except for this
guy...

….he really gave it to Gorsuch.

Look…we can go through four days
of this bullshit…but let’s be honest. Unless it comes out that Gorsuch eats
babies…he’s going to be confirmed by either the needed 60 votes (let us not
forget how spineless the Democratic Party is) or the GOP will just change the
rules to a simple majority vote…I mean this is a party staying numb on the
fucking president playing footsie with Vladimir Putin so….

…a terrorist attack…in London…on
the anniversary of the terrorist attack in Brussels…you don’t say…that’s right,
for those of you sleeping under a rock on Wednesday afternoon (sissy European
time that is, not big and tough morning AmeriKKKan time), a knife-wielding (the
NY TMES word…I would NEVER use wielding) nutbag driving an SUV mowed down
pedestrians along the Westminster Bridge, and stabbed a cop to death around the
Parliament section of London, before being shot himself…and here I was thinking
MY work days were boring. All kidding aside at least four people died and forty
were injured in what is being called a terrorist attack, and the first in
London since July of 2005. For those of you itching to change your Facebook
photo to the Union Jack keep in mind that 50 people died last week in two
separate bombings in the city of Damascus. Here’s a link to Syrian Flags. For
his part DOUCHE tried to quell the fears of Americans worried about this sort
of attack happening here by saying, and I quote: HA! HA! Told You So! London
had gotten so bad! SAD!...

actually did he even say anything
at all?I think he left it to DOUCHE Jr.
to keep the family’s good name afloat.

On Thursday the GOP failed at its
first attempt to get a vote scheduled for a replacement/repeal of the
Affordable Care Act, or as DOUCHE supporters like to call Obamacare…that is
until they realize both are one in the same and that once America’s favorite
Domestic Terrorist Party DOES replace/repeal they will be fucked…apparently the
GOP couldn’t get the votes over an inter-party arguments over how many millions
of Americans they could fuck even more. The ironically named Freedom Caucus met
with DOUCHE on Thursday demanding that the federal health insurance requirements
for basic benefits (maternity care, emergency services etc.) be cut from the
bill…and rumor has it these freedom loving members of the GOP would also like
to see the rule on pre-existing care removed as well. DOUCHE, for his part,
after the vote was cancelled, threatened House GOPers by saying they either
pass the bill or remain stuck with Obamacare….yet it looks like the House will
still fall shy of the votes.

Is anybody surprised by this? The
Republican Party hasn’t been able to effectively govern (if you want to call
GOP style governing governance at all) since September 11, 2001. And having
been the party of NO for eight years of President Obama’s term, they’ve simply
lost whatever governing embers had remained. The GOP is a party of corporately
owned petulant children who get hard every time they think about fucking over
women and minorities. I’m not talking about fucking Goldman Sach’s speeches
here, but actually feeling the ghostly spirit of corporate lobbyists from the
past every single time one of these navy-suited, bullshit flag pin wearing
racists speak….and as for Paul Ryan….if ever there was a mendacious,
anti-intellectual, ineffective, spineless, craven little twerp in Congress
currently worse than him…I have yet to see it. People call Paul Ryan a policy
wonk….Paul Ryan couldn’t pass gas in a farting contest. Just in case you don't hate him enough....

Since the sun has a better chance of burning out before the GOP
cares about anything other than its own corporate interests….my bet is that
they are going to do something to make them look like they can govern…something
warm and cozy…like giving tax breaks to the rich…and not the poor.

All the same another banner week in America as we witness the end
of democracy as we know it. You can still SUBMIT2RESIST here at winedrunksidewalk@gmail.com

Stick around today at 12pm we have the musical stylings of Ben
Burn and tomorrow at 12pm the poetry of J.J. Campbell.

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